Valerian Fedorovich Pereverzev (Russian: Валерьян Фёдорович Переверзев; 17 October 1882[1] – 5 May 1968) was a Soviet literary scholar and critic.
He and his associates published the 1928 collection Literary Criticism, a controversial key text in what was called the "Pereverzev school.
He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Kharkiv from 1901 to 1905 but was expelled and exiled to Narym for participating in revolutionary activities, being a member of RSDLP since 1905.
Pereverzev maintained that an author's style is determined by class milieu.
[1] During the Great purge, Pereverzev was suppressed and sentenced to exile in Kolyma.